As many as 34 people have been killed on Wednesday by Syrian airstrikes on rebel-held areas in north-western and southern parts of the country, a monitoring group said. The aerial bombardment against areas in the north-western city of Idlib and its suburb Saraqeb left 24 people killed,...

Dozens of inmates have escaped from jail in Sudan's western Darfur region following clashes with prison guards, police said Wednesday. One inmate was killed and four policemen injured in clashes that erupted on Tuesday in the main prison in Zalingei, capital of Central Darfur State,...

An estimated 400 migrants, including children are believed to have drowned off the coast of Libya while trying to reach Italy last weekend, survivors who reached the Italian mainland Tuesday told an international charity organization. The eyewitnesses who recounted the tragedy were...

   Syria said on Tuesday only 6,000 residents remain in the war-battered Palestinian camp Yarmouk on the edge of Damascus that has seen intensified fighting since Islamic State launched an offensive to seize it from rival insurgents. U.N. and Syrian officials had earlier...